MAKE A MEME View Large Image Italian - Curiosity Figure (Seed Man) - Walters 7526.jpg This is a rare example of a kind of bizarre composite figure that achieved popularity around 1600 especially in Milan The most famous exponent was Guiseppe Arcimboldo 1527-1593 whose ...
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Keywords: Italian - Curiosity Figure (Seed Man) - Walters 7526.jpg This is a rare example of a kind of bizarre composite figure that achieved popularity around 1600 especially in Milan The most famous exponent was Guiseppe Arcimboldo 1527-1593 whose painted portraits combining carefully observed natural elements were at once intriguing inventions and serious allegories for example his Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus Lord of the Seasons in which he flatters the emperor by suggesting that imperial power encompasses nature itself Made of materials ranging from seeds to a beetle abdomen to pearls around a wax core this curious figure exemplifies the notion of human beings as encompassing all the virtues and frailties of the physical world The 1598 inventory of the collection of the duke of Bavaria included a small Mexican idol decorated with seeds and nuts This is lost but may have inspired this type of figure Due to his fragility the figure stays in his original case ca 1600 flax and other seeds shell wood wax beetle case and parts pearl ruby amethyst; wood leather silk velvet metallic thread and glass case cm 8 3 accession number 75 26 11531 Nicholas Landau Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1970 by purchase Museum purchase 1970 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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